The 1917 intransigent faction rejected the bourgeois conception of the nation
Evidence
Although there was a diffuse “Left” within the party, and this even constituted itself briefly as an “intransigent-revolutionary” faction in mid-1917, it overlapped to a great extent with the party leadership. It differed from official policy mainly on issues of “principle” - in its insistence that violence is inevitable as the midwife of revolution; that the reformists collaborating with the committees should be expelled; that the bourgeois notion of the “nation” should be repudiated, etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 64
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: This repudiation of the ‘bourgeois nation’ is the negative space against which Gramsci’s later theory of the national-popular will be built — directly relevant to the imagined-community concepts in the reader’s toolkit.
Related
- An intransigent faction functions as party conscience rather than genuine alternative leadership. (similarity 0.87)
- Gramsci rejected faction labels of left and right as falsifying real political strategies (similarity 0.80)
- Communists feared accepting reformist leadership would liquidate revolutionary perspective. (similarity 0.80)
- Gramsci believed bourgeois state forces would migrate to the democratic opposition (similarity 0.79)
- For the PCI Left, fascist repression merely confirmed the inevitability of revolution (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci’s 1926 theses rejected any stable post-fascist democratic phase (similarity 0.79)
- Gramsci rejected simple left-right labels for political leadership choices (similarity 0.78)